Getting organized for unemployment

Yesterday ended up being devoted mostly to Minicon Programming stuff, so I didn't get around to unloading my car until today. I have WAY too much stuff that I have been carrying from job to job for years, plus lamps and a giant picture that I had taken to work to brighten up my windowless office. It was depressing carting all that stuff inside, considering how recently I had carted it all out to my new workplace. *sigh* There's a lot to do to get back into the unemployed and looking mode. Let's see, #1) go through the Digi paperwork - naah, still too demoralizing to look at - I'll tackle that tomorrow. #2 Unload the car. DONE! Yay! Unfortunately, now I have to clean my front porch, which frankly wasn't in such great shape before I dragged all those boxes and lamps into it and is now a disaster area. I settled on cleaning out my old Franklin Planner archives. I haven't used that planner for 3 jobs now, but I think now might be a good time to bring it out again. Thing is - now I have no income, I can't really afford to buy the $70 calendar pages (even if the 2003 pages were still available, by some miracle). I think I'll just make do with the huge pile of extra pages I have in this binder over here, or maybe print up my own. I do have a 7-hole punch that matches the binder. Then when I'm done, I can make a list. Yeah, that's the ticket, a list.

Plastic bags - help!

Used to be, any grocery store that gave out plastic bags had to provide a recycling bin for plastic bags, and I've gotten into the habit of saving them all - store bags, Target bags, Strib-bags. I emptied out a big Cub box full of plastic so I'd have something to carry file folders in, and now my front porch is FILLED with them! They are expanding to fill all empty spaces, twining themselves around the ankles of unwary pedestrians. One reason there are so many of them is because last time I stuffed them in the car and carried them to a nearby mega-grocery store, I discovered they had gotten rid of their recycling bins (which I thought were required by law, but they apparently didn't). The 3 closest big grocery stores are the Cub and Rainbow on south Nicollet and the uptown Rainbow. I think at least one of those stores still has plastic recycling - anybody know offhand which one(s)?